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Danyetta (Short)

Danyetta is a personal coach, author, and social innovator.  She works alongside people to mine their talents, explore their interests, develop their passions, and maximize their strengths. Danyetta trains and facilitates learning around transformative organizational design and processes within human services organizations.  Danyetta is trained in Social Role theory, Person-Centered approaches, the Five Valued Experiences, Mindful-Based Stress Reduction, and Citizen Advocacy which have bolstered her most recent work,The Black American Tree Project (BATP).  Danyetta lives in CIncinnati, OH with her husband and two children.

Danyetta (Long)

L. Danyetta Najoli earned a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership from Regent University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Fisk University. She has completed training in Diversity and Inclusion at eCornell and Cultural Humility at the Center for Cultural Humility at the University of California at Berkeley. Danyetta has over 23 years of training and development experience in the intellectual/developmental disabilities human services community.

After exiting corporate America as an officer of a global bank, which included training corporate and municipality clients, like Anheuser-Busch, Unilever, and Marriott, Danyetta continued to utilize her professional training and development skills within her professional coaching practice. Danyetta is a well-vetted and diverse inclusion professional. Danyetta sets on co- learning journeys by offering coaching and consulting to Starfire members, their families and ordinary citizens. Through her work as vice president of Invest in Neighborhoods, she has helped develop an “ideal community council” that includes neighborhood citizens from all walks of life.  Danyetta has also been integral in leading the conversation around racial conciliation and reconciliation in Cincinnati.

She has presented at the “Future is Now” of Hamilton County Developmental Disability Services, Nebraska’s Person-Centered Planning Initiative - webinar topic: “Born to Live in Community: When People We Support Become Members and Citizens Lean In,” keynote speaker at both Community Matters’ Gala, and United Way of Greater Cincinnati, most in partnership alongside a person with an intellectual/developmental disability.

Freda (Short)

Freda Epum is a Cincinnati DEI professional and writer at work on a memoir-in-essays about race, illness, and HGTV. She is Program Director at Public Allies Cincinnati.

Freda (Long)

Freda Epum (FREE-DUH EYY-POOM) is a Nigerian-American writer and artist from Tucson, AZ. Freda is a Senior Consultant at Third Space Action Lab. Her responsibilities include budget management, business development, proposal writing, change management, and training on racial Justice

Freda is a graduate of Smith College (BA) and Miami University (MFA) where she studied creative nonfiction, poetry, disability studies, critical race theory, and Women & Gender Studies. A 2018 Voices of Our Nation/VONA fellow, her work has also been supported by the Tin House Writers Workshop, the Ragdale Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View Residency, and the Jordan Goodman Prize. Her work has been published in Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, Cosmonauts Avenue, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Atticus Review, Rogue Agent, and the 2020 Bending Genres Anthology. She is the author of the chapbook, Entryways into memories that might assemble me, and is at work on a memoir about the intersections of race, illness, and belonging in America.

She has experience working with a variety of audience groups in museums, higher education, and learning centers. Her work has led to a passion for increasing accessibility in education, including gender, sexuality, racial diversity, and nontraditional education programs like for ESL students or those with developmental disabilities. She currently serves on the board of EquiTABLE, which is helping organizations and communities to build whole new, round table-and-chair sets together, with seats to fit everyone. You can follow her on Twitter @ByThePunchBowl.